Welcome to the WPEC Third Year Page!

Session Four: May 6, 2014

Main Topics

Assessment and Grading
Questioning Strategies

Inductive Learning
Core 6 Strategies
Teacher Leadership-Cultivating Positive Community and Family Relations

Technology LInks
Popular Educational Twitter Hashtags--Start building your own professional learning community using this info graphic!
Doug Reeves video --Anticipatory set for starting our discussion on assessment
Guide sheet for the video

Session Three: February 18, 2014

Main Topics

Introduction to Professional Development Concept of EDCAMP
Library of Congress and How You Can Use it to Support Teaching and Learning
Link to Library of Congress
Flipping the Classroom from a User's Perspective
Core 6-continued
Elements of Being a Teacher Leader

Session Two: December 5, 2014

Main Topics

Thursday Trivia Strategy
Core 6 Assignment Sharing
Small Group Sessions
Core 6: Vocabulary, WRITE to Learn
Blending Blogs into the Curriculum
Tackling Teamwork
Finding Funding for the Classroom
GPS for Teacher Leadership

Technology Links:

Blog and wiki sites for teachers
Edublogs
Weebly
Kidblog
Classpress
Wikispaces
Schoolrack
Blogger (part of Google accounts)
pbworks (formerly pbwiki)

Using a Wiki in Your Classroom
Teaching with a Wiki
Wikispaces Classroom
Best 21 Educational Wikis of 2012
Walk Through the Basics of a Wiki
Educational wikis

Using a Blog in Your Classroom
So, You Wanna Blog in Your Classroom?
Blogging Basics for Teachers
33 ways to use blogs
Blogger in the Classroom
Blogging in the 21st Century Classroom
Best Blogs on Educational Technology

Social Media in the Classroom
Twitter (microblogging)
Tweets and Bloom's Taxonomy-22 ways
60 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom
50 ways to use Twitter
Edmodo (social media communicator for schools)
Voicethread (talk your reactions to text)
Instagram (sharing through pictures)
Ways to Use Instagram in Classroom (info graphic)
10 Ways to Use Instagram by the We Are teachers Blog

Powerpoint Intro (On right hand side of this page, click on link for Pages and Files.
You can then click on blogging ppt)

Session One: October 17, 2013

Main Topics:

Teacher Leadership
The Core 6
Technology Integration

Technology Links:

Edutopia's Resources for Technology Integration Lots of articles, how tos , videos and more. Get on the Edutopia email list!

http://www.thinkfinity.org/welcome Find web-based resources that match the state standards

http://www.edudemic.com This site connects education to technology using trendy articles, how tos, and resources.

Teach Thought 's 5 Levels of Technology This article provides an info graphic that can be used to assess the level of technology integration in your school or classroom

http://learnzillion.com LearnZillion focuses on providing thousands of resources that can assist with Common Core implementation

http://www.educatorstechnology.com Find resources of educational web tools and mobile device apps to use in the classroom

Penzu.com Create classroom journals in any subject for students to use in a variety of online writing assignments

Apps for the Common Core Tech & Learning provides handy charts to get you started

Apps for Use in Schools If you use mobile devices, this site gives you all kinds of apps to use!

Android Apps A resource for teachers using android -based mobile devices in their classrooms

10 Sites for Differentiation Tech & Learning has provided a site that helps teachers to differentiate instruction

Socrative Engage your class using computers or mobile devices without the use of clickers